Women object to new draft law on marriage

I have an objection to the new draft law.

I have an objection to authorizing the muftis to conduct marriages.

With each new move, lives of women and girls are becoming more difficult.

Women are being repelled, women are being completely ignored.

She has gone towards being viewed as a decorative item.

The civil law was accepted in 1926 in this country.

Equality of women and men was ensured 80 years ago.

Civil marriages became compulsory. Monogamy was obliged for men. Women were given the right to choose their own profession. Women could testify in court after the civil law. Again by means of the civil law, equality has been given to both men and women on inheritance and divorce cases.

The saying, "The man is the chief of the household" was taken out of the law in the 2000's.

These have all been good achievements.

The article stipulating "Man's permission is required in order to work" was removed.

Civil law guaranteed women to freely live, work and use their rights.

But over the years, we have had a run of bad luck.

The first crack to break the vase was the Supreme Court's decision "cancelling the civil marriage restriction before conducting a religious marriage," in 2015.

That is to say a man and woman could have a religious marriage—and the age of the woman is not given any importance—she can be the age of a child.

Abstaining from a civil marriage, did not require any more penal sanction.

That paved the way to go to 81 different provinces in Turkey and conducting religious marriages with 81 people on the same day.

On top of that, these types of things are not being controlled, because there is no control mechanism....